Simple cell-shading done with style. This is what's missing from most games. Real style.
If I wanted photo-realism, I'd get up from my PC and head out the front door. Games such as WoW, Rez, Killer 7 and Ico have shown that a little creativity in the design can go a long way. It can also be easy on the gpu.
This opens up the possibility of modifying the bacteria to create nanowires on chips.
In the same was as it opens up the possibility of modifying the bacteria to code Linux kernel patches.
This certainly is cool biotech, but slapping this wild prediction on to the end of the article doesn't make it more so.
The technique involves dipping semiconductor chips into a purified solution of nanotubes, rather than the conventional method of growing the nanotubes directly onto the chips. The resulting devices are much better than those produced by other approaches.
It is like dunking your doughnut in coffee instead of waiting for the doughnut to naturally produce its own coffee flavour.
The more you know.
I hold nothing but extreme vitriol towards people that breed when there are so many children that are out on the streets and in shelters needing good homes.
People, please spay or neuter yourselves and don't allow your ego to perpetuate the suffering of homeless children.
Posts have often joked about Google becoming more like an OS, but is it more likely that OSes will become more like Google?
Moving services away from being PC-based to being web-based would solve a number of piracy issues for companies. It would also allow them to "rent" their products, instead of selling them.
Can you imagine the gleam in Gates' eye at the thought of getting 25c every time someone uses Word?
We are just coming out of an age when information was only published by large, well respected, publishing houses. We have a habit of believing what we read because, in the past, what we read was well researched. This is a bad habit now that we're in an age where any fool can publish any information.
Don't expect this habit to break anytime soon. Many of us still hold physical, bound, paper books up as precious objects to be respected and cherished. This is a hang up from way back before the printing press when books were rare objects, hand-made by the elite. The fact that they have been cheap and plentiful for hundreds of years hasn't changed opinions much.
We all want to see ads for products which appeal to us and the advertising industry spends billions each year trying to create ads for products which appeal to us. Yet, for some reason, the majority of ads just annoy us. Even ignoring those aimed at a different target, that's still a pretty hit-and-miss affair for something which should be an exact science by now.
I'm all for anything which would improve the system and more direct feedback seems like a good idea.
Advertising: The necessary, but evil grease which keep capitalism moving.
Actually, it was my classical professor who told me that joke. The humour lies in the fact that it is very common to assume objects are spheres, or in a vacuum for the sake of simple examples.
The Virgo Consortium recently completed its massive "Millennium Simulation", tracing the universe's evolution from its early origins to present day. To simplify the computations, they considered only dark matter...
Reminds me of a joke: A rich oil-baron hires a veterinarian, a statistician and a physicist to develop a method for predicting the outcome of a horse race. The three scientists disappear for a week and each returns with a different method; The vet states "I have studied the form, health and blood-lines of all the horses for the next race and can confidently say that number 7 is the best of the lot. Whether he wins on the day, is another question". The Statistician boasts "I have studied the race histories of all the horses in the next race and all the races ran on this track and can definitely say that horse number 3 has a 85% chance of coming in the top 3". The physicist then strides up to the baron and boldly proclaims "I have developed a way to predict the outcome of any race with 100% accuracy! First, one assumes that the horses are perfectly spherical and moving through a vacuum...".
I'd like to be the first to say that I have always found Windows to be a fine product for all my home needs.
I'll I'm looking for from a home-OS is for it to be easily compatible with my usual web/mail and games software. Windows has never let me down on that score.
I'm sure there are plenty of MS horror stories, but personally I have yet to experience them.
I didn't think it was possible to miss the point as much as you did.:)
What I found mind boggling was the fact that he would submit this as evidence. Fiction is not example.
That's why imaginary friends are rarely called as character witnesses.
I see what you mean and I'm not entirely happy with this idea either, but I look at it more as the BBC model on a larger scale. This is only the entertainment industry we're talking about, not political reform.
But that's not all. The consumer of {movies,music,software} will perceive it as free. As a consequence they'll consume more of it than they would if they had to pay for it. This will lead to escalating costs for everyone.
No, not at all, since the consumers would also be the producers. That is, you burn your own DVDs.
Exchanging goods for money is an old and well trusted system. It has worked well for centuries because those doing the selling were generally the only ones who could comfortably produce the product.
However, we are now entering The Information Age. Many businesses no longer sell goods, or services, but rather sets of instructions, plans and ideas. As these are not tangible objects, they are easily reproduced.
Previously it was possible to bind these ideas to tangible objects, thus making them harder to reproduce. Recipes were printed in books. Music was pressed into vinyl. Because of this, businesses could stick to the age old business model, but now that the consumer can also easily reproduce products, cracks are forming in this model.
All well and good, but what's the solution? How can businesses make money on the ideas/information/programs they produced initially? At the moment there seems to be a knee-jerk legal response, but this doesn't seem to me to be a viable solution in the long term (but I am not an economist).
One alternative could be to scrap the "sell multiple, low-cost copies" model and go with a "Sell one, high cost copy which will cover expenses and profit". For example, 20th Century Fox makes a new movie costing $100,000,000. They release it to the public for free (and Free) and keep track of how many copies are in circulation. Depending on how popular it is, they are then paid $5,00,000,000, or what ever, by a central organisation. The consumers have to pay this organisation a set amount each year to cover their costs, but are then free to do whatever they want with the movie/music/software.
Will people be happy being forced to fork out a few grand a year for products? They fork it out already voluntarily.
Do people get a say in what's produced? Who do we insure the producer is producing a quality product? Through market research and strict auditing of the producers.
A crazy, poorly formed idea, but one which does eliminate the problem sellers we are now facing.
"It isn't a product which you can use or test with, it's a bunch of proposed algorithms. There isn't even a fleshed-out network protocol. The 'experiments' they've done are simulations."
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Oops... Another glance at the pic shows that this isn't even cell shaded. It's pure, old-fashioned flat shading.
All the sweeter, in my book.
here is a quick pic.
Simple cell-shading done with style. This is what's missing from most games. Real style.
If I wanted photo-realism, I'd get up from my PC and head out the front door. Games such as WoW, Rez, Killer 7 and Ico have shown that a little creativity in the design can go a long way. It can also be easy on the gpu.
Here's the cache.
This opens up the possibility of modifying the bacteria to create nanowires on chips.
In the same was as it opens up the possibility of modifying the bacteria to code Linux kernel patches.
This certainly is cool biotech, but slapping this wild prediction on to the end of the article doesn't make it more so.
The technique involves dipping semiconductor chips into a purified solution of nanotubes, rather than the conventional method of growing the nanotubes directly onto the chips. The resulting devices are much better than those produced by other approaches.
It is like dunking your doughnut in coffee instead of waiting for the doughnut to naturally produce its own coffee flavour.
The more you know.
why does everyone seem to think "first to market" is a silver bullet that trumps all other issues?
I agree with you, but if Sony delay it won't just mean MS are first ones to market. It will mean MS are the only ones to market.
Just the opinion of this "analyst".
I hold nothing but extreme vitriol towards people that breed when there are so many children that are out on the streets and in shelters needing good homes.
People, please spay or neuter yourselves and don't allow your ego to perpetuate the suffering of homeless children.
Posts have often joked about Google becoming more like an OS, but is it more likely that OSes will become more like Google?
Moving services away from being PC-based to being web-based would solve a number of piracy issues for companies. It would also allow them to "rent" their products, instead of selling them.
Can you imagine the gleam in Gates' eye at the thought of getting 25c every time someone uses Word?
We are just coming out of an age when information was only published by large, well respected, publishing houses. We have a habit of believing what we read because, in the past, what we read was well researched. This is a bad habit now that we're in an age where any fool can publish any information.
Don't expect this habit to break anytime soon. Many of us still hold physical, bound, paper books up as precious objects to be respected and cherished. This is a hang up from way back before the printing press when books were rare objects, hand-made by the elite. The fact that they have been cheap and plentiful for hundreds of years hasn't changed opinions much.
We all want to see ads for products which appeal to us and the advertising industry spends billions each year trying to create ads for products which appeal to us. Yet, for some reason, the majority of ads just annoy us. Even ignoring those aimed at a different target, that's still a pretty hit-and-miss affair for something which should be an exact science by now.
I'm all for anything which would improve the system and more direct feedback seems like a good idea.
Advertising: The necessary, but evil grease which keep capitalism moving.
Apart from the whole idea of a "death penalty" being sickening, the average hacker wouldn't fit in the electric chair anyway.
And good luck if you try killing them by injecting harmful chemicals into their Pepsi-stream.
Disclaimer: I have an honours degree in physics.
Actually, it was my classical professor who told me that joke. The humour lies in the fact that it is very common to assume objects are spheres, or in a vacuum for the sake of simple examples.
That was bugging me too. I guess it could be a collision thing.
:)
As a physics graduate, I have seen many "perfectly spherical" and "in a vacuum" assumptions. Generally they're not too far off the mark though.
The Virgo Consortium recently completed its massive "Millennium Simulation", tracing the universe's evolution from its early origins to present day. To simplify the computations, they considered only dark matter...
Reminds me of a joke:
A rich oil-baron hires a veterinarian, a statistician and a physicist to develop a method for predicting the outcome of a horse race. The three scientists disappear for a week and each returns with a different method; The vet states "I have studied the form, health and blood-lines of all the horses for the next race and can confidently say that number 7 is the best of the lot. Whether he wins on the day, is another question". The Statistician boasts "I have studied the race histories of all the horses in the next race and all the races ran on this track and can definitely say that horse number 3 has a 85% chance of coming in the top 3". The physicist then strides up to the baron and boldly proclaims "I have developed a way to predict the outcome of any race with 100% accuracy! First, one assumes that the horses are perfectly spherical and moving through a vacuum...".
I'd like to be the first to say that I have always found Windows to be a fine product for all my home needs.
I'll I'm looking for from a home-OS is for it to be easily compatible with my usual web/mail and games software. Windows has never let me down on that score.
I'm sure there are plenty of MS horror stories, but personally I have yet to experience them.
I didn't think it was possible to miss the point as much as you did. :)
What I found mind boggling was the fact that he would submit this as evidence. Fiction is not example.
That's why imaginary friends are rarely called as character witnesses.
I agree 100% with your point. Linux is just not ready for the home yet.
But... Did you just invent a conversation between two imaginary characters to exemplify your point? Whoah...
If science has taught us anything it's that:
1) Everything in moderation.
2) Research causes cancer in lab-rats.
I see what you mean and I'm not entirely happy with this idea either, but I look at it more as the BBC model on a larger scale. This is only the entertainment industry we're talking about, not political reform.
But that's not all. The consumer of {movies,music,software} will perceive it as free. As a consequence they'll consume more of it than they would if they had to pay for it. This will lead to escalating costs for everyone.
No, not at all, since the consumers would also be the producers. That is, you burn your own DVDs.
I've been looking to change the font on my command line.
Exchanging goods for money is an old and well trusted system. It has worked well for centuries because those doing the selling were generally the only ones who could comfortably produce the product.
However, we are now entering The Information Age. Many businesses no longer sell goods, or services, but rather sets of instructions, plans and ideas. As these are not tangible objects, they are easily reproduced.
Previously it was possible to bind these ideas to tangible objects, thus making them harder to reproduce. Recipes were printed in books. Music was pressed into vinyl. Because of this, businesses could stick to the age old business model, but now that the consumer can also easily reproduce products, cracks are forming in this model.
All well and good, but what's the solution? How can businesses make money on the ideas/information/programs they produced initially? At the moment there seems to be a knee-jerk legal response, but this doesn't seem to me to be a viable solution in the long term (but I am not an economist).
One alternative could be to scrap the "sell multiple, low-cost copies" model and go with a "Sell one, high cost copy which will cover expenses and profit". For example, 20th Century Fox makes a new movie costing $100,000,000. They release it to the public for free (and Free) and keep track of how many copies are in circulation. Depending on how popular it is, they are then paid $5,00,000,000, or what ever, by a central organisation. The consumers have to pay this organisation a set amount each year to cover their costs, but are then free to do whatever they want with the movie/music/software.
Will people be happy being forced to fork out a few grand a year for products? They fork it out already voluntarily.
Do people get a say in what's produced? Who do we insure the producer is producing a quality product? Through market research and strict auditing of the producers.
A crazy, poorly formed idea, but one which does eliminate the problem sellers we are now facing.
It's the next version up from Apple's iVersion.
"It isn't a product which you can use or test with, it's a bunch of proposed algorithms. There isn't even a fleshed-out network protocol. The 'experiments' they've done are simulations."
Doesn't all software start off this way?
They have tours of things like concentration camps, don't they?
But Auschwitz is no longer being funded by the government to continue doing what it did. This place is.
Bingo. Nobody said the job would be easy. :\